Assistant Secretary Thomas-Greenfield echoed Gen. Rodriguez’s thoughts following the Westgate incident, taking part in a teleconference with The US State Department and reporters:

“It highlighted to us we were pursuing the right strategy.”

IMAGE: Gen.David Rodriguez and Assistant Secretary of State for Africa,Linda Thomas-Greenfield.

The idea of AFRICOM had been in the works since November of 2000 but didn’t fully come to fruition until 2008, as former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld formed a group to establish command of the African continent in 2006. By 2007, then Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, along with former President George W. Bush, placed a planinmotion for the US AFRICOM mission.

“The United States Africa Command, in concert with other U.S. government agencies and international partners, conducts sustained security engagement through military-to-military programs, military-sponsored activities, and othermilitary operations as directed to promote a stable and secure African environment in support of U.S. foreign policy.”

The last part of that decription is particularly important and very telling:

As operations are directed within the continent, to “promote a stable and secure African environment in support of U.S. foreign policy.”

It all becomes clear once you understand the motivations of government agencies, as they indulge in nightmare fantasies of control within their own mission statements and program directives. Here’s how AFRICOM works:

U.S. Special Operations Command, Africa or SOCAFRICA, was also put in place in 2008, just before the official launch of AFRICOM and was given a green light to start in October of 2009. SOCAFRICA, is the covert brand of AFRICOM and is located in the very same place as AFRICOM’s headquarters, near Stuttgart, Germany.

SOCAFRICA controls much of AFRICOM’s direct missions, including the Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa, which conducts operations in East Africa to protect U.S. interests – (0il & REM).Eastern Africa contains the Horn of Africa (Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti). Even though poverty is rampant in large areas of the region – the area is one of the most oil-laden and rare-earth-mineral rich areas in the world.

You have to wonder, where is all the money going?

During the ride to hell in creating AFRICOM, the US Congress approved of a $500 million dollar counter terrorism initiative supporting countries involved in ridding themselves of Al-Qaeda terror, some of those countries included Mali and Nigeria, both of which have seen a rise in terror related activity in recent years, with the terror outfit Boko Haram.

“This cooperation between AQIM, Boko Haram, and Al Shabaab has been clearly bolstered by the immense influx of NATO-provided cash and weapons flowing into Libya first to overthrow the Libyan government, then to be shipped to Syria to overthrow the government there. NATO’s assistance in expanding Al Qaeda’s operational capacity in North Africa can only be helping terrorists like those behind the Kenya Westgate Mall siege carry out cross-border operations of this scale.”

That’s right, the very same command units that brought youOperation Odyssey Dawnand the NATO backed Operation Unified Protector during the take-down of Libya, through an imposed no-fly-zone, terror outfits took control of the oil-laden nation and were promptly placed in Syria.

The ousting of Muammar Gaddafi has allowed terror linked rebels to form a puppet regime in Libya. Abd-Rabbo al-Barassi, the purported head of the Barqa government, was recently quoted stating the goals of his new government:

“The aim of the regional government is to share resources in a better fashion, and to end the centralized system adopted by the authorities in Tripoli.”

Barqa has the appearance of being a localized government rising up against a centralized system, however, Barassi’s comments point to exactly the opposite, with his call to “share resources,” fitting in form and function to the desires of a more global centralized system.

The truth is, Libya has been embroiled in conflict since the invasion in 2011 and has continued to spiral out of control after being supposedly liberated in the aftermath of Gaddafi’s rule.

IMAGE: A war torn Libya, this appears to be an apartment complex in the aftermath of the invasion in 2011.

Neo-Colonial Pursuits

During the past 150 years, Africa has been thrust into conflict, divided, enslaved and pillaged for its natural resources. Today we see the West and its allies use the guise of ‘humanitarian’ need in Africa in order successfully secure oil contracts as well as other precious rare earth minerals. Through the AFRICOM mission, the military has and will be used to provide the muscle for land and resource control throughout the continent, we are witnessing an accelerated takeover through proxy wars and corrupt business deals – this is Neo-Colonialism.

From North Africa to the HornSomalia has been ravaged by greedy oil pursuits and seemingly deliberate upheavals of violence for decades, AFRICOM, through its Western backing, has allowed for the rise in military control. As security has grown, ironically – so has the terror.

In 2012, during the London Conference On Somalia, British PM David Cameron, laid out a new future of growth for the region:

“I’m delighted that Denmark, Norway, the United Arab Emirates and the Netherlands are joining us today in setting up a local stability fund, that will provide the support to previously neglected regions, including those emerging from conflict or from terrorist control.”

Cameron continues:

“We’re helping to improve transparency and accountability by establishing a joint Financial Management Board, through which donors will work with the Somali government to make sure that revenue from key assets and international aid is used for the good of Somali people.”

Watch David Cameron speak at the London Conference On Somalia in 2012 in the YouTube video below, admitting that private donors would be involved in Somalia’s transition. What Cameron won’t tell you is what those financial donors get in return for their generous deposits in the oil rich region.

In August of 2013, Soma Oil and Gas Exploration, overseen by Lord Michael Howard, a former leader of Britain’s ruling Conservative Party, orchestrated a deal with Somalia, the first such deal with an international oil company. Twelve new oil blocks have been slated for Soma under the new agreement.

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, was put in place under Western and United Nations backing, helping to move the Soma deal forward.

Just as new aid and oil deals are being made and an economic boom is supposedly rising in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, we’re told terror outfit Al-Shabab is also on the rise. How could this be, as “humanitarian aid” and other AFRICOM missions have contributed to new development in the region, opening the door for new oil trade?

The United States has expanded a licence issued by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), protecting NGO’s who provide international aid from Anti-terror laws.

Why would they need to abruptly change this law if there wasn’t something to hide? What did Al-Shabab expect in return for supposedly transferring aid?

Controlling Kenya

Power play politics in Africa would not be complete without examining a deeper conspiracy that has sought to change the continent from within.

In a YouTube video below published by swilliamismin early October, we see the inner workings of the Kenyan political climate, much of Africa has undergone many such changes in oil and mineral-laced regions.

Watch as YouTube user swilliamism investigates critical changes to Kenya’s constitution seemingly for the benefit British institutions. Some very important questions are raised in the video titled “Who’s Nudging Kenya,” with some players close the top of the UK government.

Watch closely…

“A radical new constitution for the East African country.”

Kenya saw the first wave of a technocratic takeover in 1999, apparently spearheaded by paleontologist Richard Leakey and a government-sponsored class of technocrats from the private business sector. After about two years this process failed to gain public backing, this led to other efforts to reform Kenya’s constitution in order to lay the ground work for technocratic control.

In the video above we see Kenya in its present state, with corporate elected technocrats, making massive reformations to their constitution and a central banking overhaul to entice more resource based businesses.

How is that a UK-based public relations firm called WPP, under the moniker of TNS International, had anything to do with the reformation of Kenya’s constitution?

Why is the British government employing the privatized, Behavioural Insights Team, to change policy empirically?

It appears as if the deck has been stacked against Kenya due to British based insiders linked to Cameron’s cabinet, having secured their government functions from the inside, presumably to gain easier access to precious resources.

The apparent mall attack in Kenya is a doorway to understanding a deeper struggle in Africa.